Digital Archives and Research Resources
The Foyle Special Collections and Archives has a selection of digital content from its collections. This includes publications, photographs and archival documents. Some key texts are available through our Special Collections Digital Library, whilst other content can be made available to individuals upon request.
Please contact archives@roehampton.ac.uk for more detail.
We have also included links to external archival collections, museums and libraries, as well as research guides. 
Virtual Archives include a list of host repositories, offering curated access to archival material on a wide range of topics, whist under Discover Archives you will find discovery hubs which help searching across multiple repositories for historical publications and archives. Guides and Research support online research through searchable databases, digital materials, and research tools.
Special Collections Digital Resources
- Special Collections Digital Resources
This is a freely available digital library of key texts for the Children's Literature Collection and the Froebel Archive for Childhood Studies.
Virtual Archives
Bishopsgate Institute documents the experiences of everyday life, as well as the people who have campaigned for social, political and cultural change. Their Special Collections and Archives have digitised some of the most frequently researched and significant material from their collections.
Exploring a range of resources, including archives, books, (radio)series, articles and much more on the history of disability.
Cross-search all available Gale digital archives from a single interface. Explore history through digitized, text-searchable primary sources and discover new connections using Topic Finder and Term Frequency.
A virtual archive of children’s homes 1881 – 1981 with a focus on 1881 – 1918. Hidden Lives Revealed includes unique archive material about poor and disadvantaged children cared for by The Waifs and Strays' Society across England and Wales and is a unique resource for anyone interested in British social history.
Discover how important aspects of our past, such as the transatlantic slave trade and its abolition, attitudes towards disability, and the changing role of women, are reflected in the buildings of England's towns and cities.
UK's national centre for history, dedicated to supporting historians of all kinds. The site includes open and free access resources to primarily support the research of MA and PhD students.
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, many of which historical, movies, software, music, websites on a wide range of topics.
The LSE Digital Library provides access to digitised and born-digital material from LSE Library collections.
The Modern Records Centre, founded in October 1973, is the main British repository for national archives of trade unions and employers' organisations, and also has strong collections relating to pressure groups, fringe political parties and transport.
Discover Archives
AIM25 is a free-to-use database of archives and manuscript collections for over one hundred and fifty higher education institutions, learned societies, cultural organisations and City livery companies within the M25
The Archives Hub brings together descriptions of thousands of the UK’s archive collections from more than 330 institutions across UK. It is also a great place to learn more about archives in general, what they are and how to use them for research.
The Archives Portal Europe provides access to information on archival material from different European countries as well as information on archival institutions throughout the continent.
Find details of archives in the UK and across the globe.
A wealth of information on and access to archives and historical research.
Guides and Research
A comprehensive collection of subject guides, designed to offer an introduction to various themes within collections of histories of people of African and Caribbean descent in the UK.
UK's national library including a vast wealth of historic and modern resources.
UK's national centre for history, dedicated to supporting historians of all kinds. The site includes open and free access resources to primarily support the research of MA and PhD students.
London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) is home to a range of documents, images, maps, films and books about London. It includes free online access to some of their projects and other resources